The Longest Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF EGEG HIHI JKJK HEHE LBLB JEJE JJJJ JMJN AGAG AJAJ OAOA EPEP EEEE AJAJ QJQJ AAAALet us quit the leafy arbor | A |
And the torrent murmuring by | B |
For the sun is in his harbor | A |
Weary of the open sky | B |
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Evening now unbinds the fetters | C |
Fashioned by the glowing light | D |
All that breathe are thankful debtors | C |
To the harbinger of night | D |
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Yet by some grave thoughts attended | E |
Eve renews her calm career | F |
For the day that now is ended | E |
Is the longest of the year | F |
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Dora sport as now thou sportest | E |
On this platform light and free | G |
Take thy bliss while longest shortest | E |
Are indifferent to thee | G |
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Who would check the happy feeling | H |
That inspires the linnet's song | I |
Who would stop the swallow wheeling | H |
On her pinions swift and strong | I |
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Yet at this impressive season | J |
Words which tenderness can speak | K |
From the truths of homely reason | J |
Might exalt the loveliest cheek | K |
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And while shades to shades succeeding | H |
Steal the landscape from the sight | E |
I would urge this moral pleading | H |
Last forerunner of Good night | E |
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Summer ebbs each day that follows | L |
Is a reflux from on high | B |
Tending to the darksome hollows | L |
Where the frosts of winter lie | B |
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He who governs the creation | J |
In his providence assigned | E |
Such a gradual declination | J |
To the life of human kind | E |
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Yet we mark it not fruits redden | J |
Fresh flowers blow as flowers have blown | J |
And the heart is loth to deaden | J |
Hopes that she so long hath known | J |
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Be thou wiser youthful Maiden | J |
And when thy decline shall come | M |
Let not dowers or boughs fruit laden | J |
Hide the knowledge of thy doom | N |
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Now even now ere wrapped in slumber | A |
Fix thine eyes upon the sea | G |
That absorbs time space and number | A |
Look thou to Eternity | G |
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Follow thou the flowing river | A |
On whose breast are thither borne | J |
All deceived and each deceiver | A |
Through the gates of night and morn | J |
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Through the year's successive portals | O |
Through the bounds which many a star | A |
Marks not mindless of frail mortals | O |
When his light returns from far | A |
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Thus when thou with Time hast travelled | E |
Toward the mighty gulf of things | P |
And the mazy stream unravelled | E |
With thy best imaginings | P |
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Think if thou on beauty leanest | E |
Think how pitiful that stay | E |
Did not virtue give the meanest | E |
Charms superior to decay | E |
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Duty like a strict preceptor | A |
Sometimes frowns or seems to frown | J |
Choose her thistle for thy sceptre | A |
While youth's roses are thy crown | J |
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Grasp it if thou shrink and tremble | Q |
Fairest damsel of the green | J |
Thou wilt lack the only symbol | Q |
That proclaims a genuine queen | J |
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And ensures those palms of honor | A |
Which selected spirits wear | A |
Bending low before the Donor | A |
Lord of heaven's unchanging year | A |
William Wordsworth
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